Police in Kerugoya, Kirinyaga county, on Thursday evening arrested a 23-year-old woman after her five-day-old baby was found dumped in an 80-foot pit latrine. Kirinyaga county commander Leah Kithei said the suspect was arrested when she went to Kerugoya County Referral Hospital, where the infant was being treated after he was rescued by officers from the county fire services department. Head of fire services in Kerugoya subcounty John Kiama said the baby was dumped in a pit latrine used by tea and coffee farm casuals in one of the homesteads within Kathiti village in Kirinyaga Central subcounty. “Our office received a call from the owner of the farm that a baby was crying inside the pit latrine used by his workers. “We managed to retrieve the infant and quickly rushed him to the newborn unit at the Kerugoya County Referral Hospital where he is responding positively to treatment,” Kiama said.

Source: The Star July 09, 2021 08:13 UTC